yeah i learned my lesson there dont even show up until like 10pm for any
big name they wont ever play until midnight or so
Clint Anderson
Systems Engineer
"Freedom -- paint me a picture!" -- Burton Cummings
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Eric Fairbanks <eric.p.fairbanks@gmail.com>
wrote:
quoted 238 lines Saw 'em at The Paradise Rock Club in Boston Sunday night. Not much to say.
> Saw 'em at The Paradise Rock Club in Boston Sunday night. Not much to say.
> No introductions, no visuals, no lights. Just glitched-out, bassy insanity.
> It was great, but I only stayed for half the set because I'd already been
> there for over four hours. Doors opened at 7:00 and Autechre came on
> sometime around or after 11:00.
>
> Cygnus was good. Lots of acid basslines. Nice mix of aggressive 4/4 stuff
> and dark, ambient weirdness. I just wish things had started sooner. I don't
> have the wherewithal to stand around in a sweaty club for 5+ hours. Maybe
> if there was seating, or if I'd had my good earplugs on me, or if the
> levels had been less mind-meltingly loud by the end of things. Perhaps if I
> hadn't already seen Kraftwerk the night before I'd have had more patience.
>
> IDK. I hope they come around again though.
>
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 11:28 PM Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Went last night to Brooklyn Masonic Hall. Had a great time. I only caught
>> the last 10 minutes of Cygnus but it was so quiet and badly mixed that I
>> can't even comment regarding the quality of his music and frankly made me
>> pretty concerned for how Autechre was gonna sound. Fortunately the volume
>> increased considerably, and the house seemingly turned on the middles and
>> highs (thank guys!) about 5 minutes into their set. Kent summed up their
>> sound pretty well, but it was a little less techno-y then I remember them
>> six/seven years ago, with few moments 4/4 kicks and more either broken
>> half-time plodding feel (slightly dubstep-ian if you will) or tear-out fast
>> paced stuff. I don't think I had ever appreciated how dry and harmonic
>> their hi hats (or equivalents really) are. There were a few moments of
>> melancholic pads and at one point a Oversteps FM melody lead line, but in
>> general it was pretty aggressive, crazy sounding shit with a lot of bass
>> weight and big kick drums. People were into it, I was close enough to the
>> front for chatter to be a non issue, and it ended after an hour on the dot
>> without an obvious peak in their set. But fair enough. It was sick.
>>
>> Was very happy to just hear their music presented with other excited fans
>> and drink a couple beers and even verbally confirm that parts were
>> especially sick with the friends I went with. It's a concert but it's also
>> a party you know? It's one thing to talk through a set uninterested but
>> it's also great to share something with friends and not have it just be a
>> dry observational experience completely devoid of any element of
>> socializing. But hey I like going to clubs to hear house and techno too.
>>
>> Finally, good on Autechre for having the focus of their live show be
>> music and only music, not some rocked up performance or dazzling visuals.
>> There's a lot of difficult music out in the world but not much of it is as
>> rewarding as theirs.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Dan Esposito <desposito321@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone have or know someone who does have an extra ticket for
>>> Autechre tonight at Brooklyn Masonic Hall?
>>> I can trade for free admission to Output for King Britt and Francois K.
>>> I heard they will be going heavy on the ambient dub. Plus the venue is
>>> dope!!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dan Esposito Esposito Management Group, LLC 9321 Hamilton Walk
>>> Brooklyn, NY 11209 Mobile: 646-519-1510 Office: 718-748-1273
>>> desposito.emg@gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, October 2, 2015 10:28 AM, Eric Fairbanks <
>>> eric.p.fairbanks@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Seeing them in Boston Sunday. Will report back with strong opinions
>>> post-show.
>>>
>>> (Autechre, not One Direction)
>>>
>>> Also seeing Kraftwerk at the wang Saturday. That'll be...interesting.
>>>
>>> There's not nearly enough bodyslamming at live sets.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 9:53 AM Chang Terhune <crt@crtdot.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> My wife and daughter were watching the SHowtime special when I came in
>>> for dinner last night. I hid in the bathroom until it was all over.
>>>
>>> - Chang Terhune
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> "I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer." - JG
>>> Ballard
>>>
>>> Writer, Yogi, Musician.
>>> Not necessarily in that order
>>> http://www.changterhune.com
>>> http://twitter.com/bigbadchang
>>> crt@crtdot.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 2, 2015, at 6:24 AM, Mark DelLima wrote:
>>>
>>> LOL. By all accounts they put on a good live show...
>>> On Oct 1, 2015 19:09, "Chang Terhune" <crt@crtdot.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So you're a One Direction fan now?
>>>
>>> - Chang Terhune
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> "I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer." - JG
>>> Ballard
>>>
>>> Writer, Yogi, Musician.
>>> Not necessarily in that order
>>> http://www.changterhune.com
>>> http://twitter.com/bigbadchang
>>> crt@crtdot.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 1, 2015, at 2:21 PM, Mark DelLima wrote:
>>>
>>> The dimmed screens are part of the reason why most music created in the
>>> last 30 years will disappear to the ages. Technique is something "up the
>>> sleeve", computer-aided, secretive, proprietary. I don't listen to Autechre
>>> anymore because I don't have patience for long-form conceptual noise
>>> anymore.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 11:01 AM, kent williams <chaircrusher@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Caught the Chicago show at the Metro. Sound was great. The stage was
>>> dark and they were hidden behind monitor speakers, so not like a Lady Gaga
>>> Spectacle. Not much in the way of quiet passages. Lots of savage beats
>>> that almost turn into grooves. Lots of impossibly complicated filtering on
>>> atonal lead synth sounds.
>>>
>>> I thought Cygnus was ... overly busy. Autechre have actually perfected
>>> live electronic music, in that they generally have at most 3 components to
>>> what they're doing, but one component might be kick hits, weird FM noises,
>>> and vowel filtered sustained tones; they build up rhythm patterns with
>>> radically different sounds so that each sound plays alone. At most they'll
>>> add a couple of other sounds -- time stretched screams, granular backwards
>>> guitar, whatever. But the arrangement is actually sparse; the sounds
>>> themselves bring the chaos.
>>>
>>> What I posted to Facebook during the set:
>>>
>>> "Either this is Autechre in Chicago or a black T Shirt convention at the
>>> Metro. Music is overwhelming. Like crashing a helicopter in a hurricane"
>>> "People dancing to Autechre do this thing that looks like Orthodox
>>> Jewish men davening in schul."
>>> "Autechre: Estonian Speak And Spells arguing with pissed-off Orcs."
>>> "Autechre: Robot opposums fighting over chicken bones in a dumpster at
>>> the bottom of a mineshaft."
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:35 PM Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> did you smoke weed before they played
>>> On Sep 30, 2015 11:11 PM, "Alex Kolesnichenko" <support@bytegems.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Laurel Halo was fucking amazing. First half of her show just blew my
>>> mind. Second half was more of a standard 4x4 fare – good, but not great as
>>> the first half.
>>>
>>> FWIW, I feel a bit of let down for the whole “show in the dark” thing
>>> that Ae did, but yeah, the music is what matters… I was with my eyes closed
>>> on pretty much any show I went during the fest, so not a big deal. :)
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> *From:* Chris Bellevie [mailto:c.bellevie@gmail.com]
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 30, 2015 4:21 PM
>>> *Cc:* idm list <idm@hyperreal.org>
>>> *Subject:* Re: autechre US tour
>>>
>>> This pretty much sums up their show at Decibel. Most I talked to after
>>> were put off by them playing in the dark, but I loved it, just the sound.
>>>
>>> In addition to Cygnus and Rob Hall, we had Laurel Halo play before Ae
>>> came on. That was awesome.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Eric Sorenson <eric@explosive.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Chris Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>> Has anyone caught Autechre on their current US tour? Any reports?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, saw 'em here in Portland last week.
>>>
>>> The opener (the impossible-to-google Cygnus) was awesome. Live hardware
>>> set that was electro-rooted with some great development and movement.
>>> http://cygnusat.bandcamp.com/
>>>
>>> Autechre played in the dark. Each with their laptop, screens dimmed down
>>> to almost nothing.
>>>
>>> Nothing I recognized, but I haven't really been able to ID individual
>>> tracks since Quaristice. The sound at Holocene was pretty good but many in
>>> the crowd would not shut up their dumb mouths long enough to hear the quiet
>>> passages. Things would go sort of noodly noisey space and then drop into
>>> incredibly fast and 'hard' beats, full spectrum clattering glitchy things
>>> at 190bpm. Midrange "melodies" like they figured out how to suck sound
>>> backwards through the speakers. Pause. Repeat with a variation on
>>> timbre/tonality or maybe a hint of an acid squiggle done so fast it was
>>> gone before you're sure that's what happened.
>>>
>>> 60 minutes of this and then they unplugged their laptops and slunk off.
>>> Rob Hall did some nice Warp-ish DJ stuff but it was a worknight and I had
>>> to go pretty quickly.
>>>
>>> Was it good? Yeah, it's a treat for the ears. Feels like there is a bit
>>> of disdain, or at least indifference, for the audience and what they're
>>> hoping to get out of a live show, which I don't think is new. I was hoping
>>> for some kind of the 4/4 stuff that surfaced a couple of years back, and I
>>> had to resist the urge to shout out "Basscadet!!" like an idm-dork "Free
>>> bird!!" .. but as always, we get the thing Autechre want to do, not what we
>>> want them to.
>>>
>>>
>>> - Eric Sorenson - N45.569, W122.763 - http://twitter.com/ahpook -
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